This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin … Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this … natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to commit crimes. We …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different … explain developmental gaps in children's non-cognitive skills. Our measure for children's noncognitive skills is their … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …